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"Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." - Abraham Lincoln
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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2024
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Not even close to true.
Colonization was widely supported pre-Civil War by leaders of the Black community as well.
Out of no small concern for the prospect of a guerilla war sparking up - something which the KKK several years later, thankfully after the Confederates had been largely disarmed and disbanded, did end up creating in response to losing their 'privileges' over Black folk as part of Reconstruction. As they were disorganized and ill-equipped, President Grant was able to decisively put them down and eradicate their organization as well as their fighting capacity with the use of Federal troops. If those numbers had been swollen years earlier by freshly desperate Confederate veterans, still in close contact with their units? It would not have gone as smoothly as it did.
Fuck, man. People are products of their time and environment. Take the quote as the W it is.
Maybe in a world where being freed in the USA seemed impossible, and from a place of struggle. Not out of the mouth of the most powerful man in the country AFTER these people were made free.
Leaving Confederates largely in power is exactly what led to this. The system had to be dismantled not wishy-washy "oh just say you're loyal now and you can go back to your life". This left Confederates in a position in society that hugely hampered financial and societal freedom of the freedmen in a vicious, self worsening cycle setting them back into a spiral of poverty that led to nearly as bad conditions as slavery.
There are people from that time with FAR better views and actions than Lincoln.
That quote in no way backs up
I deliberately avoided contesting
Lincoln publicly spoke out in favor of full integration of Black Americans into the national fabric before his death. Most sources agree Lincoln abandoned colonization shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation; others say only after the approval of the 13th by the Senate.
Confederates were largely not left in power by Lincoln. Do you not remember the terms laid down by Reconstruction before Johnson?
Okay?